The opportunity
We're looking for an Engineering Manager II to own and grow the Observability Pipelines engineering org at a pivotal moment in the product's lifecycle. Observability Pipelines is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product, with a lot still to build as it grows and scales.
What you'll do
Directly manage the OP org including EM1s across NYC and Paris, set technical: direction, and be the connective tissue across a distributed team
Build out the management and technical leadership layers as the org continues to grow - today ~20 ICs
Partner directly with Product to co-own the roadmap and strategy, helping: decide where OP’s engineering investment goes next
Set and evolve the operating rhythm across the group: planning cadence, on-call and incident standards, and cross-team alignment
Own key cross-org relationships with the SaaS Logs Pipelines team, the BYOC: team, and the Vector open-source community
Coach managers and senior engineers, and build the succession and growth: plans that let the org scale beyond you
What they're looking for
- Experienced managing managers across distributed teams, with a track record: of raising the bar on how those teams operate, not just delivering through them
- Background in distributed systems and high-throughput data infrastructure,: enough to guide architectural and build-vs-buy decisions at the domain level
- Familiar with on-premises or customer-installed software and the operational: tradeoffs it introduces - support escalations are more complex, incidents are harder to diagnose, and environments vary enormously
- A strategic partner to Product: you help set the roadmap, not just execute against it
